What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on DSP-02 Secure Disposal?

Media sanitisation standard naming accepted methods per media type; Sample of disposal requests traced to completion with sanitisation records; Certificates of destruction from vendors; Verification records of wiping success; Roles and responsibilities for the disposal process.

What is the most common gap auditors find on DSP-02?

Logical deletion treated as disposal

CSA CCM v4.1 · DSP - Data Security and Privacy Lifecycle Management

`DSP-02` Secure Disposal

Data on storage media is disposed of using methods the industry accepts, so that no forensic technique can recover it.

Source: CSA CCM v4.1, DSP-02. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open CSA CCM v4.1 in the compliance library.

Version 4.1 adds 11 controls (among them API security, log sanitisation and a service bill of materials) and renumbers several domains. CSA accepts v4.0.x during its transition; if your STAR assessment is still on v4.0.1, check the numbering against it.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

hard

to go live

Policy repository / GRC workspace

where the evidence lives

teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Sample of disposal requests traced to completion with sanitisation records · Data governance / DLP tooling
Certificates of destruction from vendors · Vendor register / contract repository
Verification records of wiping success · Data governance / DLP tooling

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Media sanitisation standard naming accepted methods per media type · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Roles and responsibilities for the disposal process · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

Logical deletion treated as disposal
Solid-state drives sanitised with methods only suited to magnetic disks
No verification sampling of wiped media

Do this for your whole sheet

Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

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DSP-01 Security and Privacy Policy and Procedures · DSP-03 Data Inventory